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Babur:Jahangir::Foreigner:Indian
by Guest Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:31 pm
1. In his autobiography, the first Mughal Emperor Babur writes disparagingly about India:
"Hindustan is a country of few charms. Its people have no good looks; of social intercourse, paying and receiving visits there is none; of genius and capacity none; of manners none; in handicraft and work, there is no form or symmetry, method or quality. There are no good horses, no good dogs, no grapes, musk melons or first-rate fruits, no ice or cold water, nor bread or cooked food in bazaars; no hamams, no colleges, no torches or candlesticks," he wrote in the Tuzuk-i-Baburi.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/Samarkands-salaam-to-Babur/articleshow/18652644.cms
Babur was a Central Asian from Ferghana. He arrived in India at the age of 43 and was dead 4 years later. He was by no means an Indian. So we understand his disparaging comments: coming from a colder climate he was unhappy in the hot weather of places like Delhi and Agra where he spent most of his life while in India. He was also homesick--he writes that once someone had brought some musk melons from his native Ferghana and he had cried when he ate it. And efficient cooling mechanisms, including the procurement of ice, had not yet come into existence in India (they would be discovered during the reign of his grandson Akbar).
Now, if we read the autobiography of Jahangir, Babur's grandson, the scenario is completely different. India is no longer disparaged. In fact, a particular region of India is described as being "heaven on earth".
In the seventeenth century the Mughal emperor Jahangir set his eyes on the valley of Kashmir while living in a house-boat on the mesmerizing Dal Lake and said, “Gar firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin asto.” What Jahangir meant was that if there is ever a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.
https://worldtoursandtravelsonline.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/kashmir-visit-heaven-on-earth/
2. Being a central asian, not having grown up eating mangoes, Babur writes in the Baburnama that his favorite fruits are melons and musk melons. Being a good Indian, Jahangir writes in his own autobiography that his favorite fruit is the mango.
"Hindustan is a country of few charms. Its people have no good looks; of social intercourse, paying and receiving visits there is none; of genius and capacity none; of manners none; in handicraft and work, there is no form or symmetry, method or quality. There are no good horses, no good dogs, no grapes, musk melons or first-rate fruits, no ice or cold water, nor bread or cooked food in bazaars; no hamams, no colleges, no torches or candlesticks," he wrote in the Tuzuk-i-Baburi.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/Samarkands-salaam-to-Babur/articleshow/18652644.cms
Babur was a Central Asian from Ferghana. He arrived in India at the age of 43 and was dead 4 years later. He was by no means an Indian. So we understand his disparaging comments: coming from a colder climate he was unhappy in the hot weather of places like Delhi and Agra where he spent most of his life while in India. He was also homesick--he writes that once someone had brought some musk melons from his native Ferghana and he had cried when he ate it. And efficient cooling mechanisms, including the procurement of ice, had not yet come into existence in India (they would be discovered during the reign of his grandson Akbar).
Now, if we read the autobiography of Jahangir, Babur's grandson, the scenario is completely different. India is no longer disparaged. In fact, a particular region of India is described as being "heaven on earth".
In the seventeenth century the Mughal emperor Jahangir set his eyes on the valley of Kashmir while living in a house-boat on the mesmerizing Dal Lake and said, “Gar firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin asto.” What Jahangir meant was that if there is ever a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.
https://worldtoursandtravelsonline.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/kashmir-visit-heaven-on-earth/
2. Being a central asian, not having grown up eating mangoes, Babur writes in the Baburnama that his favorite fruits are melons and musk melons. Being a good Indian, Jahangir writes in his own autobiography that his favorite fruit is the mango.
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